Re: [PATCH] splice exports

[Jeff Garzik]

Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 31 2006, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 23:06 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > > Woe be unto he who builds their filesystems as modules.
> >
> > since splice support is highly linux specific and new.. shouldn't these
> > be _GPL exports?
>
> Yes they should, I'll add that to the current splice tree.

Why?  We don't usually restrict filesystems in such ways...  I would 
rather a binary-only module reference generic_file_splice_read() than 
create its own.

	Jeff



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